Canada
Cinevision, Ltee (= Ltd), Quebec, 1973, x shares, blue, vignette: torch
swinging nude man, globe and wheel with wings, Television Company; VF and
unfolded, but in right upper corner the number 300 has been written with a
pen, not near the vignette, though; price 23 Euro.

Marvel Hemsley Ltd, 1973, x shares, green, vignette is the same as that
from Cinevision: torch swinging nude man, globe and wheel with wings, Television
Company; price 23 Euro.

QCI Industries Ltd, formerly Quinte-Canlin Ltd
Ontario Canada,
1975, orange, x shares, vignette
of strong semi-nude man turning the wheel of fortune, The certificate is originally printed as a Quinte-Canlin piece, but later over printed in red with the text "QCI-industries, formerly" price 50 Euro.

These certificates were sold in The Netherlands and Belgium in the
1970's, together with certificates of Equicorp Industries and Mircan Industries Ltd, at people's doors and through banks and brokers. It ended in a big scam. Read the story on Equicorp Industries !

Zece actijni nominative representano suma de lei 5000, in the name of René Marcovici, Bucaresti, 1923; very decorative mining share certificate (ca. 20 x 35 cm + coupons attached) showing 2 work men and 4 engravings of industrial processes such as mining towers and an oil well spouting out oil into the air.

Price € 75.

Spain

Compania de las Hulleras de Ujo-Mieres, certificate of 1 share of 25
gold pesetas, Ujo, Asturia, established in 1904, black vignettes on
ocre background, text in French and Spanish, 66 Euro.
Formed in 1904 to acquire the Asturias mines of
Ujo-Mieres and Riosa. Long format with 2 large and impressive pictures:
1 of coal miners, busy at work under ground (19 * 11 cm) and 1 with
surface workers loading the coal into trucks and women carrying coal on
their heads (19 * 8 cm).
A beauty to frame !!!

Sociedad Jareño de Constructiones Métalicas,
established in Madrid, 1913, share of 500 Pt, On the front side a Beautiful 14 by 20 cm large
pink picture of forger at work, and
at the inner side of the share a 7 by 2 cm drawing in black of the factory; beautiful
for framing; price 245 Euro.

USA
Chas, Pfizer & Co., Inc., Delaware, , USA, 100 shares, blue, 1950-ers,
23 Euro
Vignette: 2 men sitting on each side of an entrance with the name Pfizer
above it.
The pharmaceutical firm, now called Pfizer has recently become famous by
their production of the VIAGRA-pil.

Dillingham Corp., 100 shares, blue, 19sixties and seventies, 11
Euro.
Vignette: elegant man sitting in front of buildings, a road, a tunnel and
electricity dam; also Company logo: globe with the name Dillingham. See picture

Hercules Incorporated
Inc. under Delaware law, USA, in 1912; head quarters in Wilmington,
Delaware, now a world wide operating chemical company (www.herc.com)
with
also a facility in Zwijndrecht, The Netherlands; 8,75 % 5,000 $ note, 1975, due 1983;
brown
border, print: Security-Columbia Banknote Co.; 9 by 5 cm engraving of the
Greek
hero Hercules, wearing a lion's had as a head cap and a club on his
shoulder; facsimile
signatures
by S.R. Clarke (treasurer) and Werner C. Brown (president), not for sale / niet te koop.

Marathon Manufacturing Company certificate of 100 shares, 1970s, orange border and 6,5 by 5,5 cm. engraving of a muscular
man
holding a burning torch and globe in front of 2 Greek buildings, at his
feet a laurel wreath of olive twigs; print: Security Columbian Banknote
Co.; condition EF: unfolded, no staple traces, no cancellation stamp,
price
25 Euro.Incorporated in 1969 under Delaware law, USA; The company was founded
by Howard Terry, originally as Business Funds Inc. It built oil rigs
world
wide. The company also owned the John Brown Shipyards that once built
the
HMS Hood, the Queen Elisabeth, and QE2. Later the company was acquired
by
Penn Central Corporation during its diversification phase (Source:
Collectible
Stocks and Bonds).

In 490 BC the people of Athens (now the capital of Greece) gained
(under leadership of Miltiades) the victory over their enemies, the
Persians (under leadership of Datis) in the battle of Marathon, a small
site on the north east coast of Attica. A messenger (the soldier Pheidippides) ran so quickly to
Athens (ca. 40 km
away) to bring the good news that he died upon arrival. This "Marathon
walk"
has always remained part of the Olympic Games, over a measure of 40,195
meters. (source: ENSIE, part X).